The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination and assessment

Heinzeller, Dominikus; Dieng, Diarra; Smiatek, Gerhard; Olusegun, Christiana; Klein, Cornelia; Hamann, Ilse; Salack, Seyni; Bliefernicht, Jan; Kunstmann, Harald

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-815-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

23 Apr 2018

| 23 Apr 2018

The WASCAL high-resolution regional climate simulation ensemble for West Africa: concept, dissemination and assessment

Dominikus Heinzeller, Diarra Dieng, Gerhard Smiatek, Christiana Olusegun, Cornelia Klein, Ilse Hamann, Seyni Salack, Jan Bliefernicht, and Harald Kunstmann

Data sets

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) high-resolution climate simulation data, links to subset of variables at daily and monthly temporal resolution in NetCDF format D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880512

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with ERA-INT forcing as control experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_ERAINT_CTRL

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with GFDL-ESM r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_GFDLESM_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with GFDL-ESM r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_GFDLESM_RCP45

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with HadGEM2-ES r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_HADGEM2_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with HadGEM2-ES r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_HADGEM2_RCP45

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with MPI-ESM MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_MPIESM_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF12km with MPI-ESM MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF12_MPIESM_RCP45

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with ERA-INT forcing as control experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_ERAINT_CTRL

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with GFDL-ESM r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_GFDLESM_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with GFDL-ESM r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_GFDLESM_RCP45

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with HadGEM2-ES r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_HADGEM2_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with HadGEM2-ES r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_HADGEM2_RCP45

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with MPI-ESM_MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 historical experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_MPIESM_HIST

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) WRF60km with MPI-ESM_MR r1i1p1 forcing from the CMIP5 RCP4.5 experiment D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WRF60_MPIESM_RCP45

Model code and software

West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) high-resolution climate simulation data, links to subset of variables at daily and monthly temporal resolution in NetCDF format D. Heinzeller, D. Dieng, G. Smiatek, C. F. Olusegun, C. Klein, I. Hamann, J. Bliefernicht, and H. Kunstmann https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.880512

Short summary

Climate change and population growth pose severe challenges to 21st century rural Africa. Within the framework of the West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate change simulations is provided to support adaptation and mitigation measures. This contribution presents the concept and design of the simulations and provides information on the format and dissemination of the available data.